Species Seekers Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Name: Species Seekers Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth
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ISBN: 9780393341324

ISBN-10: 0393341321

ISBN-13: 9780393341324

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard Conniff

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.82" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Introduction Strange Things, Strange Lands



That Great Beast of a Town



Finding the Thread



Collecting and Conquest



Mad about Shells



Extinct



The Rising



The River Rolling Westward



"If They Lost Their Skalps"



The Burden of Specimens



Arsenic and Immortality



"Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"



Craniological Longings



"A Fool to Nature"



The World Turned Upside Down



A Primate Named Savage



"Species Men"



"Labourer in the Field"



The Slow Power of Natural Forces



The Gorilla War



Big Noses and Short Tea-Drinkers



Industrial-Scale Natural History



"The Blessing of a Good Skirt"



The Beast in the Mosquito



"Why Not Try the Experiment?"


Epilogue The New Age of Discovery


Necrology


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index